Chicago

I just got back from a whirlwind 5 day trip to Chicago. I spent time with family and friends – here’s some highlights:


Lots of shopping with Chi-town faves Maggie and Missie.

Eddie, Wendy and Matt! Yes they are this cute in real life too!

Love in the Dove, ladies!







And a celebrity sighting of super blogger Reed.
I would also like to formally thank the exchange rate gods for blessing me with the (nearly) 1.5USD – 1.0EUR situation. It enabled me to bring back to Amsterdam about 10 liters (not kidding) of various liquids and gels, including multiple containers of Jiff Creamy Peanut Butter, Sweet Baby Rays BBQ Sauce, Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing and mustard. Money well spent!

Paris

After wasting away a perfectly good X-Mas time off on bumming around Amsterdam, Brad and I decided to head south to Paris for a weekend. Decision was made and we were on the plane within about 4 hours.

This is probably the most spontaneous thing I have done since spontaneously dying my hair red in 10’th grade. But this time, the outcome was much better!

I finally made it to the Louvre
and the Popmidou.

Cologne

A bit of travel never hurts … unless you eat too much schnitzel.

My posts are rare, I realize, but hopefully entertaining, to both people that read it.

So where have I been? I’ve been stuffing my face with Schnitzel! In Cologne. With blogger-pal Brad and Chi-town-fave Maggie.

This is how big your mouth has to be to eat this schnitzel.